The plug-in electric tricycle by designers Lorenz Nasdal and Laurent Hompesch, is an environmentally friendly vehicle. The vehicle is driven by electricity and the battery pack is located under the seat.
The plug-in electric tricycle by designers Lorenz Nasdal and Laurent Hompesch, is an environmentally friendly vehicle. The vehicle is driven by electricity and the battery pack is located under the seat.
When might this vehicle be available?
Looks like a flawed design from a center of balance and traction perspective. Rider plus battery that far back with only a single skinny rear wheel for traction, but then I wasn’t buying into it being environmentally friendly in the first place with so much plastic and yet still completely open to the elements so it’s doubly a waste of materials.
Any vehicle that doesn’t get you where you need to go EVERY day in every weather means you have to have an alternate method of transportation that you could just take instead making this only an expensive toy.
Lastly, where is the airbag? The top edge of that windshield looks particularly likely to crack someone’s head open in the event of an impact.
Expensive toys can be fun but toys are inherently non-essential especially when they take so many resources so again the opposite of environmentally friendly. Plus, it’s a bit silly to have something that looks relatively expensive and that size, with little to no cargo area even assuming there might be a small amount under the hood.
I agree with Dave, when will these “designers” consider practical day to day stuff? It smacks of an environmentally friendly Ariel Atom. Having said that it looks pretty cool but REAL design would be making it look cool but also practical. Looks like it has a rear hub motor which is not the most efficient or high performance, so in this guise it’s more a triumph of style over substance. The layout for a personal commuter / runabout is great however and I would love to see them take this and make it weatherproof with some luggage space and decent performance. Then I might want to buy one, or maybe I’ll nick the idea and build a better one.
I love the look, but the BIG market has to be where mobility scooters fail to provide LOOKS. I am 73, with heart failure and would love a machine like this with a bit more accessibility. I am no longer good at vaulting the rails, nor can I sit so low with my legs virtually horizontal. AND, given that there is so much bodywork, I would want a canopy a bit like the Messerschmitt bubble car of old. I also want RANGE so low weight carbon fibre bodywork would be fine
What is the price of the electric vehicle featured here?